• Question: what is your inspiration?

    Asked by anon-253151 to Melanie, Luke, Catriona on 5 May 2020.
    • Photo: Melanie Krause

      Melanie Krause answered on 5 May 2020:

      Thank you for that question 🙂
      I’m not sure if you mean inspiration to eventually become a scientist? In that case I would say that when I was 11 or 12 I read a science book for kids that said in 100 years we will have cures for all diseases that exist now and I thought ‘Wow.. I want to be a part of that!’ and so I wanted to become a scientist who finds ways to cure disease. Now I know that its not that easy and we won’t have a cure for everything in 100 years but we are still making progress.
      Outside of Science I really admire people who just do the things they believe in even at personal risk just was whistle blowers like Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning or Carl Von Ossietzky.

    • Photo: Luke Bryden

      Luke Bryden answered on 5 May 2020:

      Hey Adam! That’s a good question and I had to think for a while about it. In terms of my scientific inspiration, I am inspired by people who work in a really rigorous way, presenting what they find out in an honest and understandable way. It inspires me to live up to that standard in my own work. What inspires you?

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